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On The Eve of The Dawn of a Brand New Day

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

MY HOPE IS THAT WE CARRY THIS FORWARD. This energy now rising. That we all carry on with this decision to work for a new day and a new way of seeing. A way out of the hate and the fear and the small-minded paradigms that keep us running in circles as we try to spiral up to the Top of the Shining Heap and step on other hands to get there. That we continue to open our minds and our hearts and become this change we want so much to believe in.

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Saturday Music Jammie Third Party Musing

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

HERE’S A LITTLE MUSIC with confrontational soul. Here’s a little textual feeling taking a confrontational role. Hearing about a silver spoon in the mouth at birth and privilege I begin thinking about how it infects thinking and how it infects all our thinking potentially. Which leads me to thinking about those choosing to vote third party right now, or who are still “Undecided.”

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Cynthia McKinney Answers The Sanctuary Survey

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

THE SANCTUARY EDITORS: Showing the vitality and importance of voices from outside the mainstream two-party political paradigm, Congresswoman McKinney puts forth not only a strong understanding of the complexities of the Immigration Issue, but also a vision of real-world solutions with a refreshing willingness to confront the broader social and economic realities which undergird international migration.

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Si Somos Americanos – If We Are (All) Americans

Monday, October 27th, 2008

CHANGE is coming for the world. Neoliberalism is crashing, Free Market Philosophies are crashing, Wall Street is crashing: All the mechanisms in place that are best at making the rich richer and the powerful more powerful and the poor poorer are collapsing. Posturing Palin is on TV telling the commoners they need to support the party of elitism, and Evo Morales is doing just the opposite.

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A Loathsome Day On Parade

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

MY HEART RACED faster and faster and when it was over I…I let the sadness wash through me as it had to for a few moments. The bold ignorance and hate and bigotry was…terrifying. And sad. And loathesome. And real. But not new. This energy takes people’s lives every day in some part of this land. But maybe we move closer to a new time. And simply that possibility is inspiring.

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Final Throes of the Big Boss Monster

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

WATCHING THE WELL-WORN WEAPONS OF THE RIGHT being grappled and thrown and dropped and whipped about in frenzy; watching the GOP throw McCarthyism, Racism, Terrorism, Greedism and everything else at both Barack Obama and the American populace reminds me of the final writhings and wailings of the Boss Monster before you take its life.

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Leaders of LASA Write Obama

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

LASA: The way to manage immigration is not by building a giant wall. The United States should support more equitable economic development in Mexico and Central America. The U.S. must reconsider drug control policies that have not worked and have been part of the problem of political violence. And the U.S. must renew its active support for human rights throughout the region. Unfortunately, in the eyes of many Latin Americans, the USA has come to stand for the support of inequitable regimes.

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a september remembered

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

NEVER FORGET. This is what many people say about September 11th, 2001. I say it, too. Though I’m not sure I mean it in the same way. Herein is a tale, including diary entries made from NYC during the WTC explosions, of the changes that those horrifically violent and altogether terrifying events inspired in me. They changed me forever, and in some ways, I would be unrecognizable to you now, had they not occurred.

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To Split like a Seed and Become a New

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SO HOW LONG our own bloody transition? And without a goal. And rife with lies. And the priests do not join with the people do not join with the warriors today. We are all at odds, enjoined by lies. And blood flows in many lands at the hands of our warriors—who know not even why or for what they fight. And we hide their rituals from the people. And replace them with lies.

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We Stand in No (Every) Place

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I am far more comfortable navigating the in-between than I am in any Place. I like no thing as much as the coming and going from one to another. It is on the purpling beaches of dusk and the roseing gauze of dawn that my true eye shines lidless and I see so much more than in broad daylight.

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On Obama.

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

AND NOW IT’S ONLY FAIR to revisit the phenomenon (because I’ve long felt he is one) of Barack Obama and how I feel about his run. Now, I hardly think it matters in a larger sense. If Bill Richardson is not going to affect people’s feeling or voting too much with his endorsement, what the [...]

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A goodbye to MT

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I’M SORRY, MOVABLE TYPE. I’ve been with you since 2002. When you were bare bones and for techies. When I had to customize every last thing, and nobody even knew ya. I was with you when wordpress blew up. And I’ve suffered your glitchy plugins and your catching up to Web 2.0, and I’ve defended [...]